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From: leeke@cascade.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Please Help -- Hyper 20 / System problem
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 10:46:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 10:46:14 1986
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Reply-To: leeke@cascade.UUCP (Steven D. Leeke)
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>Dear Net,
>
>This one is pretty good.  It concerns the use of MacProject and MacDraw 
>from the 20 mb Hyperdrive.  Both these programs have a feature that sets
>the size of the chart or drawing.  It is a dialog box with a rectangle 
>separated into squares. One square is the default size (8.5 x 11). By 
>clicking additional squares you can make the chart or drawing larger 
>than a page (they must then be taped together).
>
>The problem is that when these packages (not protected) are executed from
>the hard disk, the size rectangle is separated into very thin vertical 
>lines instead of the normal squares.  This makes it real tough to set an
>appropriate size.  My drawers (sorry) are set up with a system file in 
>startup and these two programs in another drawer.  I think I may be missing
>some sort of secret resource on my hyper that is on both the MacDraw and
>MacProject disks.
>
>Thanx 3.1415926 for any assistance.
>
>Sam Mantel -- Roch, NY

Sam,

The problem (I believe) is that both Project and Draw have no knowledge
of how to deal with pages when a print driver is not on the same volume
as they are on.  It is not good enough to simply have a system with an
imagewriter or laserwriter on it and Project/Draw on another mounted
volume.  You MUST have a print driver on the same disk since Project/Draw
change the page size you see depending on the print drive and whatever
you have done during page setup.

For laserWriters Draw defaults to a 7.5 x 10 in page, and for imagewriters
the defaults is 8 x 10 in.  Note that if you go to 50% reduction in
imagewriter during page setup or some variable percentage in laserwriter
the page size shown on Draw/Project will change.  Similary, if you
change from landscape to protrait or vice-versa you will see your layout
change, that is you first clue of the communication going on.

I wish that Draw/Project were smart enough to search the system (i.e.
all mounted volumes) but it seems only the application's volume gets
searched.

I hope this helps; it seemed to cure my problems.

Steve Leeke